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Introduction to Political Science

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Introduction to Political ScienceSuggested Readings

Suggested Readings

Adetula, Victor, Redie Bereketeab, and Cyril Obi, eds. Regional Economic Communities and Peacebuilding in Africa: Lessons from ECOWAS and IGAD. New York: Routledge, 2020.

Barnett, Michael, and Martha Finnemore. Rules for the World: International Organizations and Global Politics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004.

Bosco, David. Five to Rule Them All: The UN Security Council and the Making of the Modern World. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2009.

____. Rough Justice: The International Criminal Court in a World of Power Politics. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Bradford, Anu. The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2021.

Cambanis, Thanassis, Dina Esfandiary, Sima Ghaddar, Michael Wahid Hanna, Aron Lund, and Renad Mansour. Hybrid Actors: Armed Groups and State Fragmentation in the Middle East. New York: The Century Foundation Press, 2019.

Davies, Thomas. NGOs: A New History of Transnational Civil Society. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Ellis, Stephen. This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organized Crime. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Hannay, David. New World Disorder: The UN After the Cold War—An Insider’s View. London: I.B. Tauris, 2008.

Hurd, Ian. International Organizations: Politics, Law, Practice. 4th ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Keck, Margaret, and Kathryn Sikkink. Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in Global Politics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998.

Lessing, Benjamin. Making Peace in Drug Wars: Crackdowns and Cartels in Latin America. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Oksamytna, Kseniya, and John Karlsrud, eds. UN Peace Operations and International Relations Theory. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2020.

Park, Susan, and Jonathan Strand, eds. Global Economic Governance and the Development Practices of the Multilateral Development Banks. New York: Routledge, 2015.

Sayle, Timothy Andrew. Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019.

Tanaka, Yoshifumi. International Law of the Sea. 3rd ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Wright, Lawrence. The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State. New York: Vintage, 2017.

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